| Current Work Role - Owner-Director | |
Own company, Partnering Works, established in 2006 providing services in policy, strategy, governance, people and client relationships
Project manager and consultant for a range of clients and work projects, with a selection including:
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 | 2009 Strategic Planning to provide the process and a report and draft plan for West End Family Care Services Inc, operating as West End Community House | |
2008 Review of the Office for Women in Queensland to provide a blueprint for the future of women’s policy in Queensland | |
2008 Journeys Through Homelessness commissioned by Micah Projects Inc funded through the Prevention and Early Intervention of Homelessness program in the Department of Communities | |
2008 Towards a Quality Management Framework for Lifeline Community Care Queensland reviewing its approach to licensing and accreditation standards | |
2007 Pathways for People with Disability in the Criminal Justice System - Using a Benefit Cost Analysis to Reframe the Approach to Policies and Programs for Queensland Advocacy Inc, funded by the Department of Premier and Cabinet |
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Facilitator of workshops on strategic partnerships and relationship management in the government-business-non-profit community sectors’ context
Member of AIM’s executive coaching panel
Board and Ministerial appointments (see next section).
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| Current appointments - Board | |
2007 Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland
Director, representing community interests in the regulation of professional engineering services in Queensland
2006 Board of Queensland Museum
Member, contributing to governance and strategic directions
2004 Audit & Risk Management Committee, Queensland Museum
Member, inaugural independent member and now Board representative overseeing the strategic and operational risk management plans and performance
2003 Australia’s CEO Challenge, Workplace Partnerships Against Domestic Violence
Director, promoting an understanding of domestic violence as a social and economic issue for employers and the workplace
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| Current appointments - Ministerial | |
2008 Queensland Compact Governance Committee
Inaugural Independent Chair, appointed by the Minister for Community Services, with a Committee of ten high-level government and non-profit community services sector representatives. The Compact is to achieve a better quality of life and a fair community for all Queenslanders. It is implemented through an Action Plan with current projects around:
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| actively reducing ‘red tape’ to cut administrative duplication and compliance costs associated with quality standards | |
early engagement in policy and planning using the homelessness reform agenda as an example | |
establishing a knowledge hub, and providing access to government information systems and data to use in planning services. |
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| Prior work role - Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA) | |
CEO, reporting to a Board of Directors, of a regulatory body for the residential services sector in Queensland involving over one third of the State’s population as renters, rental businesses and peak bodies
Development and application of a strong governance framework ensured organisational sustainability and growth
Self funded from interest on rental bonds: Operating revenue of $27.5 million, operating expenses of $17.3 million, equity of $38 million, funds under management of $360 million and staff at 133 FTEs (at 30 June 2006)
Introduced a new Act through all the policy, legislative and parliamentary processes to cover boarding houses, support accommodation and student accommodation
Stakeholder accountability recognised through Gold Medals at successive Australasian Reporting Awards for annual reports.
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2006 – Partnering Works Pty Ltd
Owner-Director
1998–2006 Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA)
Chief Executive Officer
1996–1998 Queensland Treasury, Audit Commission Office
Director working on government finances and on the Managing for Outcomes Programs
1995–1996 Office of the Cabinet, Queensland Government
Acting Director, Economic Policy and Special Projects
1990–1995 Office of the Cabinet, Queensland Government, Women’s Policy Unit
State’s First Women’s Advisor to the Premier (Wayne Goss) and Director, establishing an effective model with three integrated functions: policy, service delivery and community consultation
1994–2000 Institute of Public Administration Australia, Queensland Division
Queensland State President and Executive member and National Secretary contributing to professional development and policy debate in the public sector
> 1994 Program director and economist positions, government departments at Commonwealth and State level in Queensland in state development, health, employment and training
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1981 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), University of Qld
1971 Bachelor of Economics, University of Queensland
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| Board professional development | |
2009 Strategic Financial Management, AICD
2007 The Not for Profit Board: Issues for Directors, AICD
2006 Company Director’s Course Update, AICD
2000 Company Director’s Course, AICD
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| Professional associations | |
Fellow, Australian Institute of Management (since 2004)
Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors (since 2003)
National Fellow, Institute of Public Administration Australia (awarded 1998)
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